Filtering without Lambda or Java 8

I wanted a way to filter generally without using Lambda or Java 8.

File path from Class Relative

determine current filesystem location of executed class from the code of this class, in runtime, given that it's executed using java command?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11747833/getting-filesystem-path-of-class-being-executed

Creating CORS Web Service for AngularJS

CORS is the ability to allow cross domains scripting. This can be important if you say want to host your website on S3 and have those pages access web services in EC2. I spent TONS of time trying to find how to configure AngularJS to use CORS and what I generally saw was people saying...

"You need to configure the server side for access control, not the client."

Well that's not entirely true.

The example I am using is based on the Spring, Jersey, run-as-ajar example you can find on GitHub. So lets start with the server side then:

And here is the client side...

Jenkins Home

[ec2-user ~]$ sudo su -s /bin/bash jenkins bash-4.2$